Re: [Monotone-devel] SCCS interface Support

[Thomas Keller]

J Decker schrieb:
> there's a 'standard' that was developed to interface, generically, 
> version control systems and development environemnts for instance Visual 
> Slick Edit, Visual Studio... SCCS Support would be a nice addition to 
> see for Monotone.

I second the request for a "general" interface to other VC systems, and 
I know that PVCS, ClearCase and some other still use the SCCS format 
internally (obviously I have to admit I never saw that), still, I doubt 
if it would be a good idea to go another time down the road with a 
proprietary format (like for the CVS importer). Everytime I hear 
anything about the guy who implemented  that I hear "RCS is evil!".

During my research for my thesis I stumbled across an open XML dialect 
introduced by Perforce in 1999 called "RevML" - maybe this could deserve 
a closer look? Since it comes from Perforce they might have built-in 
support, and since its an open standard, maybe other VCS could be 
encouraged to provide interfaces to their systems using this dialect as 
well?

Thomas.

[0] http://public.perforce.com/public/revml/index.html